Mailing List
If you'd like to be informed about updates to this site, click here

“ A physician without a knowledge of Astrology
has no right to call himself a physician ... There is one common flow, one common
breathing, all things are in sympathy. ”Hippocrates

“ Our modern science begins with astronomy. Instead
of saying that man was led by psychological motives, they formerly said he was
led by his stars. ... The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence
between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from
the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics
from a certain time. Therefore we have to conclude that what we call psychological
motives are in a way identical with star positions. ”C G Jung

Astrology

There are a vast number of astrological sites on
the internet, including many excellent introductions to the subject as well as
specialist sites focusing on specific schools of thought and methodology (see
Links below for some of them). I won't be adding to any
of that on these pages (although click on the link for the briefest of
brief
introductions). This section of the site is an eclectic collection
of essays dealing with specific astrological subjects as and when they find
themselves being written, and assume a reasonable level of understanding in the
subject. In some ways they echo the homeopathic
provings in that they're mostly experiential explorations
of the energies represented by various astrological archetypes. It goes without
saying that these are personal and subjective interpretations, even if evidenced
by reference to charts of various individuals or events.

I'm not a professional astrologer but have studied the
subject informally for several years now and find it an extremely useful tool
in homeopathic practice as well as more generally. Since there are as many different
approaches to astrology and as many, if not more, ways of interpreting and using
the data as there are ways of practicing homeopathy, here's a brief summary of
the underlying assumptions and perspectives that inform my particular approach
to the subject.

An astrological chart of a person's birth (or an event)
represents a symbolic analogical snapshot of their energetic blueprint taken
through the lens of the macrocosm at the same moment in time. It's a map of their
principle
"characterising dimensions",
to borrow a term from homeopathy (the quis? quid? ubi? quibus auxiliis? cur?
quomodo? quando? – which, what,
where, what with, why, how, and when) which
define and distinguish the unique qualities of each individual within the context
of the whole. It's more of a thematic outline than "fate" set in
tablets of stone, since there is always a huge amount
of potential variability in how each individual reacts to any given situation
and at what level the energies play out, from the mundane and/or physical to
the philosophical and spiritual.

Mapping the positions of the planets and points at the
moment of a person's birth in this way doesn't imply any kind of focused physical
impact being exerted by those planets directly on the individual. In other words,
the planets are not in any way "causative" of the individual's character,
a rather absurd concept which has led many people to reject astrology out
of hand. (That kind of object-oriented unidirectional linear logic is incompatible
with astrology in any case, which lends itself more to a holistic analogical
multi-dimensional apprehension of inter-related process. See the essay The
Redness of Names for more on this.) Rather, the relative positions of the planets
are reflective and representative of the precise state of the "hologram" (of
which each of us is part) at the moment we emerge and define ourselves in our
place within it. The same individual's energetic blueprint can be mapped
in any number of different ways – all
the diverse well-established astrological systems have validity – yet
the
territory remains the same.

I use the tropical geocentric method common to many western astrologers with
a predominantly psychoanalytic interpretive slant, and make use of all 10 planets
(as far as I'm concerned, Pluto and Eris deserve equal rank with the traditional
planets), a selection of asteroids (Chiron, Juno, Ceres, Vesta, Pallas Athena),
the Hamburg School Transneptunian Points (Cupido, Hades, Zeus, Kronos, Apollon,
Admetos, Vulkanus, Poseidon), Dark Moon Lilith, the Sabian Symbols and the occasional
asteroid.